On Bella’s traits: “She’s definitely not naggy but she tries so hard not to be sometimes. I think sometimes, ‘Why don’t you just let yourself be?’ I think she picks at herself too much, but I can relate to that. I always say my favorite thing about her is that she screws up a lot and doesn’t care and is like, ‘This is the way that life is, and I’m young and I’m going on with it.’”

On the end of the Twilight saga: “I get to play her for a really long time, and that’s also a serious indulgence, and something that’s really lucky, because I feel really sad when I lose a character at the end of a short shoot. Which is typically six weeks on a small movie, which is what I’m used to…This was a part that I just really wanted to play, and luckily I got to do it for a really long time.”